The Canon EF 85 mm f/ 1.8 USM lens features a very good price-quality relationship for Canon EOS digital and film cameras.

It is well fit for portraiture. It delivers sharp image from f/1.8 onward. It is compact and light.

Pictures taken with the Canon EF 85 mm f/ 1.8 USM are remarkable for its image definition, accurate and slightly "warm" color rendering, and color saturation.

Another "advantage "of the lens is its compact size. The Canon EF 85 mm f/1.8 USM weighs only 330 g; it is 71.5 mm long on the camera (with two caps - 93 mm); diameter - 75 mm.

The Canon EF 85 mm f 1.8 USM provides manual focusing. Focusing can be tweaked any time during autofocus operations with the focus ring. Focusing is internal. The front lens does not rotate, which enables the use of polarizing and gradient filters.

A 8-bade aperture provides beautiful background blurring. The aperture is not rounded, but there are no characteristic "pentagons" visible in the photos.

Owner reviews: Canon EF 85 mm f/ 1.8 USM

I recommend this lens as an add-on to a normal zoom lens, 85mm works well on both full frame and aps-c sensors. it does good on portrait photograpy and video shootings. Despite it's rather fair price it offers a great AF wich is missing on many of the competing counterparts like Zeiss or Rokinon. I rented the 85mm f1.2L but i consider the f1.8 USM lens as the better choice. EF 85mm f1.8 USM - a must have lens!

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM - a great portrait lens. Not a bad aperture ratio, good enough detail to the max. aperture, sharpness, bokeh is beautiful. An excellent choice for the money. Lightweight and compact. I recommend! P>

Weaknesses:

Hood is strongly required! Otherwise, a lot of restrictions. But it's not in package, so after buying this lens i'm had puzzled of searching Chinese equivalent p>

Comments:

An excellent choice for this money, lightweight and compact, I recommend! P>